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^gjIfN1. W VOL. 29. NO. 3. APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT BECAUSE: 1It aims to publish all the news possible 2-It does so impartially, wasting no words- 3-Its correspondents are able and energetic. ORE than 3,000 vears ago there were gathered at the command of Moses, on the plains of Assemblage in the valley of Mount Sinai, all of the children of Israel to listen to the reading of the laws that were re vealed to Moses during the "forty days and forty nights" he spent in the midst of a cloud communing with the God of the "chosen people Since that momentous and epoch making event nations have risen to mighty power, only to go down to dei ,iy and oblivion. Unpeopled plains have been converted into hives of industry, and hives of in dustry have reverted back to unpeopled plains. New land's hive been' discoTerfffl^atid peopled and n\ seas have been navigated and charted Every where progress has changed the physical condition o! tlu people Everywheie progress has changed the unstoiical and geogiaplncal importance of na tion* and countnes Here, alone, in the Mount Sinai Valley, where the nation that gave us the Scuior first spuing into prominence, progress has stood still. Sin rounded by the peaks of the "Forty Mdityrs," all is hushed and still on the plain where onn the hum ol thousands of voices was heard, and v\hcre the valley rang with the resounding march ol the hosts of Israel. On the poak of Ras-es-Safsafeh, the cross, the symbol of Chiistianity, has been planted on the verv spot upon which Moses, the great law giver and leadpr of the Jews, stood and gave to his people the ten commandments, the basis of all religious beliefs and the foundation of all law, moral and chil Now unpeopled and deserted, the very loiusomeness of the place is awe-inspiring, and rh' 'silence of the tomb" is not more impressive than the "veil of silence" that envelops Ras-es- SafSafeh and its surroundings The mount on which God is said to have re veakd himself to Moses is situated in the south ern half of the so-called peninsula of Sinai, pro jecting into the northern extremity of the Red sea between the Gulf of Suez on the west and the Gulf of Akabah on the east This park of the peninsula consists of a mass of granite and norphyry mountains which may be divided into three groups, a northwestern, reaching in Jebel Serbcil a height of 6,712 feet a central, includ ing Jebel Musa (Mount of Moses), 7,363 feet, and Jebel Katerin, 8.537 feet and an eastern and southern, whose highest peak is Jebel Umm Shomer. 8,449 feet. Whether the Biblical Sinai was Jebel Umm Shomer of Jebel Musa was long disputed by leading authorities. The former was achocated by Eusebius, Jerome. Cosmas Indico pleustes, and In more modern times by Lepsius and .Ebers Jebel Musa, however, is preferred by most authorities, and is favored by tradition (which dates, however, only from Christian times), indicated by the name ''Mountain of Moses," and the erection of a monastery upon it which goes back to the days of Justinian The northern peak of Jebel Musa, known as Ras-es Safsafeh (6,540 feet), meets the conditions re quired, since there is an open space at its base sufficient to accommodate a large encampment Standing on the lofty summit of Mount Sinai, hat thoughts and visions are conjured up as one contemplates that there on the vast plain of \ssemblage that stretches before the eye hun dreds of feet below, fifty centuries ago, the com mandments were deliverd to the assembled chil dien of Israel. Excepting for the Mount Sinai monastery, which from these heights looks like a little toy fort built of blocks, the region is still and hushed, and almost deserted. The massive walls of the monastery raised by the peace-loving and God-fearing monks under Justinian in 527 A D. as a protection against the marauding bands of Bedouins that infested that part of the coun try when the wealth of an empire was possessed by the builders and occupants of the monastery are in the same condition as when built 1,500 years ago. Today, however, the Christian world keeps a watchful eye over this mountain monas tery and its contents, and the Bedouins, knowing this to be the fact, keep on friendly as well as visiting terms with the monks. In the monastery are stored the priceless books narrating the history of Christianity In the tongue of every Christian nation. Slowly the brotherhood of Mount Sinai monks are dy ing out, there being but twenty or twenty-five at the present time. The life and the paynot enough to buy tobaccoare not sufficient in ducement for young recruits to join the forces that year by year are growing smaller. In the course of a few years the terasurer of the monastery will remain but a memory to remind one of the greatness of its founder, Justinian. Looking northwest from Jebel Musa to Wadi el CC&Z2&S3 J&&$& Loja the traveler who for days has been wearied by the sight of nothing else but the monotonous blue of the burning sky and the dreary desert all about him is exhilarated, pleased and rested bv the sight of those beautiful cypress trees with their cool, dark foliage down in the wadithe Arabic name for hollow or valley. One can scarcelj imagine anything more dreary than the valley where these trees raise their heads above the rock-bound hollow in the desert. They stand in all their majesty in the gardens of the monas tery of the Sinaitic monks on St. Catherine, one of the mountains of the range called the "Forty Martyrs," and great pride is taken by these men of God in these trees, which for a thousand years have broken the monotony of the desert waste and have cast their welcome shade wherein the weary traveler and the travel-stained caravan may rest and take shelter. For more than a year the Israelites were en camped in the valley of Sinai when they again took up their wanderings in search of the prom ised land Through Asia Minor they proceeded to the land of Canaan, their great leader, Moses, dying as they came in sight of the country which God had promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. One of the most important places in Asia Minor, on the road from Constantinople to Konia, is the ancient town of Afium Kara-Hissar, whose extraordinary citadel, rising 800 feet in its very center, was the Byzantine fortress of Aeroenus, where in 730 A. the Arabs, under the leader ship of Sid el Battel el Ghazi, were defeated bv the Turks in its very shadow. To get a view of this most picturesque town a climb up the stair way cut in the rock of the citadel brings one to the very summit where there still remain the me diaeval Turkish fortifications Like all other towns in Asia Minor, Afium Kara-Hissar is built of mud bricks. Its streets run in every direction of the compass. Although the language spoken there Is Turkish, there is a large Armenian population. It is as dirty a place as one can imagine. Overrun with half starved, howling dogs in the day, the night is made hideous by their mad attempts to clean up the refuse" thrown in the streets. It is a good place to be avoided by the fastidious. The town boasts of a fine bazaar, churches for the Armen ians and mosques for the Turks, as well as schools for both classes. The Armenians have made a commendable effort to make their part of the town inhabitable and sanitary. The story of the birth and infancy of the founder and first legislator of the Israelite na tion is one of the treasured gems of Hebrew literature. He was of the tribe of Levi, and his mother, Jochebed (his father's name was Amram), hid him three months in defiance of the edict of Pharaoh, who, to prevent the growth of his Hebrew slave population, had ordered all their male children to be put to death at birth. As the danger of discovery became great, the infant was placed in an ark on the Nile, was found and adopted by the daughter of Pharaoh, and was brought up as an Egyptian prince. But his heart was with his enslaved brethren, and Defective Page ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY. JANUAJEtX 18.1918. rz&zrj OJ^ M^c^rMB^M.6^miijmzrc^ his slaying of one of their oppressors necessitat ed his flight to Midian, where he received the divine call to be the deliverer of his people from Egypt. After considerable trouble he led them forth, crossed the Red sea, in which the pur suing Egyptians were drowned, and then, during a forty years' residence in the desert, organized the religious and social polity of the nation Moses stands out as a sublime and unique figure, without whom neither Judaism, Mohammedanism, nor Christianity could have been what they are BEAR WAS HIS INDIAN WIFE. Where the Hunter Shot Her Is Now Called Bear's House. Along one of the branches of the Cheyenne river in South Dakota there stands a hill called Matoti, or Bear's House. Tradition tells this Indian legend about it: Once upon a time an Indian hunter was out on the chase. He wandered for many a day through forest and plain, over hill and dale, till he finally came to a spot where Bear's House now is. Here he hunted for a while until one day he met a beautiful Indian woman. As soon as he saw her he wanted to marry her. Long and hard was the wooing, for the Indian woman was unwilling to marry the stranger. At last she consented, but she made the stranger promise that he would never in the future hunt or kill the bear This animal was her totem, sacred to her and an object of her wor ship. The hunter faithfuly promised to obey her wishes and to hunt all other animals and leave the bear unharmed. Then they were married and lived on in happiness and contentment for many a day. Once it happened that the hunter started on the chase. Early he went and roamed all through the neighboring forest without killing a single thing. At last he became weary and tired from the chase and resolved to return to his wigwam. As he was approaching his home he saw in the dusky twilight the dark and shaggy form of a huge bear making straight for the wigwam. "Now my wife will be lost," he thought, "for if the bear reaches there before me he will surely kill her." Doubt at first stayed his hand, for he remem bered his marriage vow. But fear and anxiety overcame his doubts. He raised his bow to his shoulder and aimed at the animal. One arrow sent straight to the heart laid the animal low. When the Indian came near he saw instead of the bear the lifeless form of his wife. The hill where they lived is still called the Bear's House, or Matoti Hill. Not for Publication. "Of course, you have some convictions In mat ters of public concern." "Mebbe," replied Farmer Corntossel. "Well, why don't yon come out and express them?" "I dasn't. We've got boarders from all political parties."Washington Star. -1 "V Run From Boulogne to Arras In Spain Is Interesting. Switzerland No Paradise for the Speeder, as Inhabitants Do Not Welcome This New Mode of Travel Speed Limit Boulogne, France.There are more Ways than one of setting out for the Tyrol, and if a short sea voyage is an object, then nothing can better the Folkestone-Boulogne route. Otherwise the Hook of Holland and a journey down the Rhine is a good alternative. We chose the short sea trip and start ed with a run from Boulogne to Arras, a town not devoid of interest. Then on to Rheims, which is always a sat isfactory halt, first, because it pos sesses one of the most perfect of all the French cathedrals, and, secondly, on account of the excellence of the hotela consideration not to be de spised after a day's run We had in tended staying a night at Bar le Due after Rheims! but on arriving there we were so unprepossessed by the look of the one and only hotel given i in our guide that we decided to go on to Nancy, which we reached eventu ally after being caught in a terrific i thunder-storm We made our way into Switzerland through the Vosges i country, staying a night at Plom bieres, a pretty little French water ing place, rather shut in by woods and hills. Our next journey took us over the Ballon d'Alsace, then through Bel fort, Montbeliard, St Hippolyte, Maiche and Morteau to the frontier. The road, on leaving Montbeliard, is particularly beautiful, and especially after leaving St Hippolyte, where it begins to ascend rapidly with a suc cession of corners. It is hilly and wind ing all the way to Maiche, and then runs along a fine open plateau for some kilometres, gradually ascending as far as Russey and then descending until Marteau is reached, when a sharp turn to the left brings one with in a few miles of Le Lac au Villers and the French Customs. After climb ing to the summit of the Col des Roches, a fine rugged piece of scen ery, the road enters a rock tunnel, at The Cathedral at Rheims. the end of which the Swiss customs house comes into sight. From Chaux le Fonds we could only crawl for the rest of the way into Neuchatel, for the road is very steep over the Col des Loges, and then comes a long winding, and in parts rapid, descent to Bondevillers and Valengin, with numerous sharp cor ners and tunnels cut in the rock. From Neuchatel to Zurich is an easy day's run? but in Switzerland one must always remember to allow about double the time taken to cover the same distance in any other coun try. The speed limits are absurdly low in the towns and villages, and as the country is thickly populated and there are seldom more than a few kilometres without houses, traveling becomes a somewhat lengthy pro ceeding. Very heavy fines are im posed for don-compliance with regu lations, and every minute large pla cards greet the eye with "Halt! Autos Langsam6 kilosBusse 200francs!" As yet cars are not welcomed by the Swiss, and one has to get accustomed to hearing "Halt!" yelled out con stantly, while the angry looks of the inhabitants lead one to imagine one is beating a record instead of crawling at the rate of four miles an hour in the middle of a village. GERMAN TAX LAW OPPOSED Proposed Action Against Nickel Shows and Saloons Raises Storm of Protests. Berlin.A storm, of protest has been aroused by the government's de cision to tax tickets of admission to motion picture shows and increase the tax on brewery malt. More than 350 proprietors of nickelodeons and mo tion picture shows in Berlin and 2,000 saloon keepers, cafe and hotel propri etors, have petitioned against the two taxes. The Socialists are bitter in their attack upon what they term an attempt to tax the cheapest form of pleasusethe only one the working classes can afford s&^f^ena OLD LANDMARK TO BE RAZED Noted Toll-House in Boston to Be Torn DownWiil Be Replaced With a Theater. Boston.A structure of much his toric interest, which will soon be torn down to make way for a theater, is the old toll-house at the northeast corner of Oxford street and Ridge avenue. The building, which is of frame and one and a half stories in height, was the first toll-house on the famous old Ridge Road which was the first improved road leading from this city to Norristown. It was built in 1811 by the Ridge Road Turnpike Company and is the last of the old toll-houses remaining within the city limits. The building consists of two parts, the original structure and an addition built about 1860, which adjoins it on Famous Old Toll House Which Soon Will Be Razed. the corner The old building was used as the toll-house for over 50 years un til a change in the highways the vi cinity necessitated its abandonment and the erection of a new house fur ther up the road, at Issining avenue. The old house has been the property of one family ever since it was built. It was built by John S Lawrenee, the first toll-keeper, whose grandson, John Lawrence, recently sold it to the theatrical concern Mr. Lawrence was born in the building and remembers his .mother collecting tolls at the doorway." For many years Mr. Lawrence used it as an office for his coal yard. It was not far to the east of the old toll-gate that Porter, the highwayman, robbed the United States mail coach in the early part of the last century, for vhich he was hanged at Bush Hill, near Seventeenth street and Fair mount avenue Another important building at the time which was close ly associated with the toll-house was the Moss Cottage Hotel, which was built before the Revolution and stood a short distance west It was the custom in the days of the toll-house not to collect tolls from hearses and undertaker's wagons, nor funeral carriages on the way to a church yard. Funerals on the way to a cemetery, however, were compelled to pay. Carriages conveying persona to church services also were exemplt from the toll. The rate was iy2 cents a mile for each horse and 1 cent for each head of cattle and swine. JAIL TERM AS A "BRACER" New York Court is Lenient to Prison er Who Stole When Starv. Ing. New York.Justice Steinert in spe cial sessions sentenced Albert F. Mor gan to thirty days in the Tombs to "brace him up." Morgan had pleaded guilty to the theft of a violin worth $15 from his landlady, Mrs. Marie Hardt, of 391 East 40th street "I had a position in Washington," he said, "until three months ago. Then I got in with a gay crowd and spent more money than I should and finally came to New York. For two days I had had nothing to eat, except some rolls I stole from a doorstep, and fin ally I stole the violin. I was desper ate and down and out." After a brief conference with Jus tices Mclnerney and Salmon, Justice Steinert announced the sentence. "You are on the verge of a breakdown," he said, "and it is for your own best in terest that I send you to the city prison for thirty days." FIGHTS CATAMOUNT AN HOUR Beast Attacks a Pennsylvania Hunt er, Killing Dog Before It Is Slain. Pottsville, Pa.Ellsworth Minning, returning to his home at Tremont about nightfall after a hunting trip accompanied only by his dog, was at tacked by one of the largest cata mounts ever seen in this section. He felt the animal leap from the limb oi a tree, as if by intuition, and stepped aside, just in the nick of time. The animal immediately engaged in a fight with the dog, which was killed. In th meantime Minning repeatedly emptied a shotgun into the catamount's body, and after an hour's struggle the ani mal was slain. It weighed exactly 21 pounds after it had been drawn. Sues for Dog's Board. Boston.-r-Fee, the Parisian poodle dog, which has figured in several oi Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's short stories, is now the central fig ure in a suit brought against Mrs. Ward'e estate for board for the dog .40 PEE YEAR. CANTONMQDEL CITY Metropolis, Where Vice Was Pre dominant, Is Now Transformed. Overthrow of the Manchus Is Resporv sible for ChangeOpium Smoking and Open Gambling Is Now Unknown. Pekin, China.A common proverb in China was, "If you wish to be wicked, go to Canton." One who knows the old Canton, with its treasures of iniquity, would be greatly surprised today at the tre mendous change. No longer do the four story palaces of vice near the foreign settlement bring their seduc tive influence to bear on the youth of the cityall are dark and the streets are deserted The lower bund fitted up in the latest style, a thousand-foot front of "red light," is the military barracks. No longer do you find on three and four corners of the principal street crossings the blatant signs, "Gambling Here." There is not an open gam bling den nor a lottery in this city of over a million and a half of peo ple Opium smoking, that curse orse than drink in western lands, is gone, never to return, it is asserted. Not only have these three open sores of the estern world healed, but age-long abuses due to ancient relig ion and custom, have been cut away to allow the new growth of truth to appear. Slavery has been abolished by law, and assistance is given to those who are freed to find means of livelihood Four hundred girls are being educated in one school at the city's expense. The blind singing girls arei now being cared for and given an education in industrial work. And, finally, the nunneries have been opened, the girls in them are allowed the choice of leaving or re maining, and the small girls pur chased to be brought up as nuns are liberated and are being taught in government schools. Twelve of the 13 Confusian temples in the city have been turned over to the control of the educational department to be used as schools. These great reforms are but the re sult of the natural moral force of the Chinese, combined with the enlight enment of the west. Once freed from the long crushing thraldom of the Former Ruler's State Barge. Manchus, the Chinese have leaped to the iront rank of moral reform It is true that opium and gambling in Canton were prohibited before the revolution came, the latter only a few months before, but they were the results of agitation through those at tempting to get at the root of the matter under the inertia of the Man chu government, and who were suc cessful. The Manchu thought to throw them off the trail by permitting lesser reforms. It is noteworthy that within three months after the new Cantonese gov ernment was formed and the present corps of officials was well establish ed, this city, once the worst of the imarts of China, has become a mod el city. PREFERS LOVE TO THRONE Grand Duke Michael of Russia Loyal to Morganatic Wife. St. Petersburg.That love is bettei than a throne seems to be the opinion of the Grand Duke Michael Alexan drovitch, brother of the czar, who has definitely renounced all his rights to the throne, refusing to annul his mar. ganatic marriage, as the issue of which a son was recently born. The grand duke was married se cretly nearly three years ago to Mme. Mamontoff. When very young this beautiful woman of many accomplish ments married Sergius Mamontoff, a Moscow millionaire. The marriage was an unhappy one, and when the grand duke visited Moscow he met Mme. Mamontoff and fell in love with her. She reciprocated his affection and at her request Mamontoff divorced her. Her family urged her to marry again. "I will find you a husband," said the grand duke to her, and he actually married her to a young officer of cuirassiers, who was her husband in name only and who afterward di vorced her. Mme. Mamontoff and the grand duke went to Moscow and there after some difficulty found a priest willing to marry them. The czar, who was intensely angry when he heard of his brother's infatuation, practically ex iled him. The grand duke told the czar that he cared nothing for imperial rank, and would gladly renounce all his rights rather than be separated from the woman he loved. Roosters Cure Lonesomeness. Basket, Pa.Mrs. Mary Wentzel, a 72-year-old farmer, .tills 20 acres of land, keeps 27 roosters, none finer to be seen in the country, and none bet* ter trained. She declares their crow ing banishes lonesomeness and makjs* tbings lively about the place. i^M^^^j-.iS^ ^.iWV^r -at ^US^k^A'^^M^M^'J^^k *-\'rfM "n